Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughswas an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 September 1875
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
thinking differences world
I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.
weather years world
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
moon light our-world
The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.
imagination invisible intangible
They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
hate heart steel
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
civilization clothes lasts
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
missing half naked
For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.
adventure men enough
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
powerful hate sleep
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
love-is suffering riches
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
vintage seductive balance
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
names imagination
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
fate grace bows
I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
love strange human-nature
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.